Hey everyone, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hugh. You may remember that last year we dropped our very first podcast playlist on this feed, and it was my top 10 TED Talks.

Well, we're back with another playlist for you and this time all about

motivation, how to give yourself a little burst of energy and inspiration to be a better you.

So today, 10 talks we're dropping from our archive all at once to motivate you, to keep you

going when things are hard, to kickstart that new project or idea, or if things are feeling really good right now, just to offer a new perspective.

Whatever type of motivation you might need right now, we have a TED talk for that.

First up, what do you think would happen if you spent a year saying yes to everything?

Shonda Rhymes, the titan behind Ridgerton, Gray's Anatomy,

scandal, and many more shows, loves to work. When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it,

there's no other feeling, she says. She introduces us to the name that she has for this feeling,

the hum. For Shonda, the hum is a drug, the hum is music. The hum is God's whisper in her ear.

But what happens when it stops? In this moving talk from 2016, join Rhymes on a journey through her

year of yes to find out how she got her hum back. That's coming up right after a short break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day.

So a while ago, I tried an experiment.

For one year, I would say yes to all the things that scared me.

Anything that made me nervous took me out of my comfort zone.

I forced myself to say yes to.

Did I want to speak in public?

No, but yes.

Did I want to be on live TV?

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